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Yes, objectivity in morality imaginary. The illusion that our moral values are objective is a product of evolution. Evolution came up with strategies that worked, not strategies that were morally right. Evolution is blind to moral truth for the same reason that our preferred behaviours don’t track m...

Ok, so why don't you give us your explanation?
Then, if I can understand it, I'll let you know what I think of it.

Pretty much the same way it is incorporated now.

The status of ethics is as it always has been. It's a fiction. I'm an error theorist and abolishionist. We could stop all the moralizing holier-than-thou crap we go on with and just do nice things for instrumental or prudential reasons. We don't need morality now we understand how it came about and ...

Hi, QuantumT. I'm a newby, too.

I'm quite drawn to the many worlds interpretation of QM.

-1- Sounds like you had a fascinating courtship.

Hi, I'm an old bloke with an enduring interested in philosophy (especially ethics) who now has time to pursue it. I've recently read Parfit, Kitcher, Street and Joyce and a few others. I find the evolutionary account of ethics compelling up to a point. I'd love to discuss these ethics with people he...